These two aren’t bad! At least good enough that I feel interested in experimenting a little myself. I’d have been pleasantly surprised if I got this in an undergrad writers workshop. With edits I think it could be good, though it’s already good enough that it feels like the realm of “taste” rather than like “obviously this sucks”. Seems like Claude 4 is the first model to clear my “yeah that’s pretty good” bar. Its laying it on too thick feels non-compulsive and fixable in a way older models’ (to me) didn’t.
These two aren’t bad! At least good enough that I feel interested in experimenting a little myself. I’d have been pleasantly surprised if I got this in an undergrad writers workshop. With edits I think it could be good, though it’s already good enough that it feels like the realm of “taste” rather than like “obviously this sucks”. Seems like Claude 4 is the first model to clear my “yeah that’s pretty good” bar. Its laying it on too thick feels non-compulsive and fixable in a way older models’ (to me) didn’t.
Thanks for sharing these! Time moves fast.